Looks like Nazir's making it easy for him to attack, too. If these two can see off Asif, then they should be able to build a big lead even on this wicket.
One former India player who was in the test side but not the odi side told me that he would rather be in the odi side - tests are not that frequent and one day cricketers get much more spotlight and recognition from the masses, not to forget the ads. I have seen a famous ODI player say on TV that he prefers playing ODI cricket to tests as well. I can go on talking on this but I am at least sure that not all players value tests more than odis. Then, there is a section which values both forms more or less equally.
Why? I'm loving this. Pakistan is certainly showing more fight than we did in our decider.Wow, good fightback by Pakistan. Gutted that I'll miss this whole test match
I work overnights for the next four days.
Et tu, Brute
I don't know, its hard to compare an innings which won them the test to this one. I know it shouldn't be judged like that but we need to wait till the end of the match.
How was it purely batting wise? How well did he shield the tail-enders?
It's a dreadful wicket - when guys can just trundle up, roll their arm over and seam the ball all over the place with great carry, things are too far in their favour. Added to the fact that the ball regularly take hunks out of the wicket and the match is highly unlikely to make it into the 4th day and that's just not good enough IMO
For every flat track that yields centuries from every guy and his brother, we need a three day test...just to keep the batsmen in check. You need both once in a while.
Once Mohammad Yousuf and Graeme Smith got their eye in they were able to bat very well, scoring at a pretty high strike rate for Test match cricket yet still looking solid. It's not as bad as people are making it out to be really.
I only saw Smith bat but, in his case, the pitch was irrelevant when you consider that Sami and co dished up half volley after half volley.